Joe Schreiber > Quotes

“Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.”
― Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause

“I can't dance, remember?" I whispered.
"It's just a tango. It is like sex, except with clothes on." Then, squeezing me closer: "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot, you do not know how to do that either.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“I'm just saying --' He pointed the way that Han appeared to be favoring. '--this doesn't feel right'

'Yeah, well, we're on a Star Destroyer being chased by the living dead. NONE of this feels right”
― Joe Schreiber, Star Wars: Death Troopers

“Like crucifixions and pornography, it never got old.”
― Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause

“The snow wasn't deep - in many places its crust was firm enough that they actually walked on top of it - but the wind was surgical, a precision instrument with needles for teeth, and it found even the tiniest exposed places on her skin, attacking them.”
― Joe Schreiber, Star Wars: Red Harvest

“When life wants to get our attention it doesn't bother with half measures.”
― Joe Schreiber, Chasing the Dead

“It's like Sheriff Daniels sneezed, and they all caught the misinformation flu.”
― Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause

“The Jedi taught you much more than simply how to fight. They taught you how to live, how to live within the Force, and upholad the bond you share with it.”
― Joe Schreiber, Star Wars: Red Harvest

“you need to put aside your own selfish motives and consider other people for a change.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body.”
― Joe Schreiber, Perry's Killer Playlist

“It was a spectral Manhattan, a double-exposed landscape where the past folded back over on itself in overlapping decades.”
― Joe Schreiber

“Listen to me, Trace told him. I don’t know who you are, but I am in possession of a very special set of skills. If you bring my sister back right now, unharmed, then I’ll let you go. But if you don’t, I promise you, I will track you down. I will find you. And I will make you pay.”
― Joe Schreiber, Red Harvest

“Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“You tested this, right?” “You’re actually the first.” Han’s eyes went huge. “What?”
― Joe Schreiber, Death Troopers

“Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why. You could argue that’s what makes us interesting, and maybe it is to some alien race studying us from a million miles away. From where I sit it just seems pathetic and sad.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“The past is never done with us in any substantial way. The most cursory examination reveals its bloody fingerprints on every surface of our lives.”
― Joe Schreiber, Chasing the Dead

“I should have been paying closer attention.”
“You did the best you could ,” she said. “You are not a warrior, Perry, any more than I am a foreign exchange student.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“Austin sniggered. “Barge full of stranded convicts, I’m sure we’re top priority for the Empire.”
― Joe Schreiber, Death Troopers

“There's no guardrail.”
― Joe Schreiber, Star Wars: Death Troopers

“Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.”
― Joe Schreiber, Star Wars: Death Troopers

“Every so often, the universe must just get bored and decide to really cut loose.”
― Joe Schreiber, Red Harvest

“You are never going to stop me from achieving my goal, Perry. You ought to know that by now. Do you wish to know the definition of a tragic hero?”“Not particularly.”“A tragic hero is an individual who, with every attempt to restore things to normal, only pushes himself further away from normalcy.”She nodded. “That is you, Perry.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“The last of Zahhara's patients died that night. In the end it happened very quickly. About half of them had been human, the others different alien species, but it didn't make a difference. In the last moments some of the nonhumans had reverted to their native languages, some had clutched her hand and talked to her passionately- if brokenly, through uncontrollable coughing-as if she were some family member or loved one, and she'd listened and nodded even if she didn't understand a word of it.”
― Joe Schreiber, Star Wars: Death Troopers

“I dreamed about you sometimes.
In my dreams we were walking down Tenth Avenue together in the dark. You hadn’t been shot after all, and we were both all right. I asked you if you were done, and you said yes, it was finished.
In my dreams the streetlights all went off as we walked past them, but I could still see perfectly clearly to the corner. There was heat and light pouring out of you like a lantern, shining down the sidewalk in front of us, filling the intersection with amazing white light. When I reached for your hand you let me keep it there and smiled. You kissed me one more time.
In my dreams I always knew that meant that I was about to wake up. The light spilling out of your face and eyes and skin blazed up higher, and you said you had to go.
You said it had to be this way.
You said you were a goddess of fire.

Life went on. It always did, and that summer was no exception.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“I’m not helping you kill anybody else. It’s just not happening. I’m done.”“What makes you think you have a choice?”“You know why? I’ll tell you. Because we were just kissing in the street, and deep down, I don’t believe you could actually blow up my house or kill my sister. I just don’t, and she’s probably not even in the house anymore anyway, so if you want to go in there and shoot somebody, fine, but you’re on your own.”Gobi paused, seeming to consider all of this. “What is it that you want to hear from me, Perry? Do you want me to tell you that these are bad people that I am killing tonight? Because they are. They are very bad people. They deserve to die, each and every one of them.”“Nobody deserves to die.”“Oh, really?”“Okay, I mean, maybe people like Hitler and Pol Pot . . . dictators, tyrants, African warlords who starve their people into submission . . . but that guy at the bar wasn’t an evil man.”“How do you know? Because he had drinks with Hemingway?”“I just know.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“Why don’t you just tell him what he wants to know?”
“I do not like bullies. And I have never responded well to threats of force.”She paused. “Also, I believe he will kill me anyway.”
“Why?”
“Because that is what he does.”
― Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

“Wait a second,” Han said. “What are those things?” She shook her head. “Life-forms.” “Thanks, Doc,” he said.”
― Joe Schreiber, Death Troopers

“Your husband had something he meant to pass on to you,” Zahara said. “I just wanted to make sure that you got it.” Reaching into her pocket, she handed the woman a single tattered sheet of flimsi.”
― Joe Schreiber, Death Troopers

“I’m scared,” he said. “Dad’s face—” “Listen to me,” Kale said. “That wasn’t Dad.” Trig stared at him. “That was something else. We know what Dad was like.”
― Joe Schreiber, Death Troopers

“Hated them worse than he’d ever hated Sartoris or Aur Myss or anything in his life. Hated them with an intensity he’d never imagined himself capable of. It was as if all the molten fear he’d suffered up till now had hardened into glassy black peaks of pure rage.”
― Joe Schreiber, Death Troopers